Really enjoyed that! Like the sound of the World Rally Championship before Citroen and Loeb ruined it for everyone by being too good!
Bought a £50 ebay special, said 1080p, laptop fecked so cant load at the mo but video quality easily as good as go pro! I'm astounded, its head and shoulders above the Drift product. I'll link once I've loaded to youtube. Sound is shocking tho!
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Yep thats the kiddie. If you aren't too bothered about sound (am going to try foam around mike next time) its fab.
That is an epic road. Last time I rode it I had to turn back due to very high wind blowing bikes over at the top. It's a long detour round the coast to Applecross! Your videos are very polished. What editing software are you using? I went with a JVC JVC GC-XA1 Review | Digital Trends Reviews at a very attractive £128 and it produces mpeg4 files but I am struggling to find a really good editor that does what I want.
I just got a GoPro Hero 3 Black and used it for the first time with a chest harness, but not on the bike. Pretty awesome but be aware in wide angle it suffers badly from fisheye or barrel distortion, if you prefer. While this is nice for some video applications for others its just awful. It can be fixed with software or a new lens there are drawbacks with both (Fiddly and the camera may not fit in the housing with the latter cost and/or drop in quality with the former.) Just a note for anybody intending to purchase John
Just a note on something I came across, this piece of software will really enhance a lot of the footage you get by post processing the image. It will probably end up costing you nearer to £50 than $50 quoted by the time taxes etc: are added and you may have to mail them to get the link to buy it. You can download the program and try all the features on your own files. The free download will only allow a 10 second export, but is really useful as you can compare the footage etc: Gotta be worth a try for nout..........surely ProDRENALIN - Automatic Video Correction No affiliation just passing on something I thought was pretty good John
Sorry, only just saw this reply. I'm just using Windows Live Movie Maker. Free as part of windows. I've never used a video camera or editing software before I got my GoPro but it only took me half a dozen clips to get the hang of it.
Same here, find its good enough for what I need. Have got netbook back but now YT won't let me upload...grrrrrrr
Just to clarify, that software I mentioned couple of posts ago is not editing software as such, it post processing imaging software. It doesn't do titles or adding commentary, music, titles, transitions etc: It post processes the image to make it clearer by altering its shape, correct frame dropouts and a whole lot of other stuff I'm not techie enough to fully understand. I was sceptical of it but was impressed when I used it that's all John
I've just made up a new Channel. I've been shooting on Protune at 1089 at 30 FPS. I'm now trying RAW colour balance so I can do all my colour editing after. I'm using a GOPRO 3 Black. I've also been converting the footage to apple res (LT) .mov files. Bring those cut clips into iMovie and saving out as movs to upload to YouTube. I have now imported all these events and projects into Final Cut Pro X (ten) and continued with a more pro set up. This gives you the opportunity to blur out the speed or number plates in videos. Please check out my videos and subscribe if you like them. Ducati Dragon.
Think I might look into that processing package. I reckon that's one of the weaker bits of Live Movie Maker as it seems to take forever and the picture quality could be better. I'll see if I can try out a trial version or something. Cheers for the info on it.
Ah ha! I've been wanting to know how to go about blurring out things like number plates and speedos. I'll check out Final Cut too. Does this need to be done in raw files?
It's a bit of a pain in the ass to do. Or should I say time consuming. It's an action that you add to an imported file. You'll have to try it. This guy is great. A good walk through. http://macmost.com/blurring-a-moving-face-in-final-cut-studio-pro-x.html
Ta. I'm using Windows so that might restrict the stuff I can do, if I opt to go for a "better" package than Movie Maker. Really liked that video you linked to. Much, much more professional looking than the stuff I'm coming up with on Movie Maker. I dabbled with one of the more powerful free to download packages but found it massively complicated and ended up binning it within a week. I was very close to buying the latest Sony Vegas package - think it's called Movie Studio 12 - for around £35 but opted to stay with Movie Maker for the meantime. I'd still like to experiment with a more powerful package though as even just the captions and titles on Movie Maker are very rigid and simplistic looking.
compressed does it no favours but quality so good my netbook cant process it, not enough power ;a) Snett session 4 18 Aug - YouTube
I've been delving into it recently, to try and understand all the stuff associated with video it seems to be devilishly complicated to a simple sole like me. One thing that had been giving me fits was the movie types mpeg4, mov, etc: etc: and also codecs. From what I've managed to glean the file types are more or less the package and don't matter so much what's important is the codec used for compression/decompression. I found some stuff on the web about the GoPro and how it's infamous for giving choppy footage. This is (apparently) because it uses a high compression codec which maximizes the memory but involves a lot of processing and the computer often can't cope. The video I seen the guy recommended changing the codec to Avid DNxHD but after experimenting a little I'm having more luck with H.264. You can change the codecs (and do other stuff) with a free program called Streamclip. Pretty handy piece of software John
